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Journal articles on the topic "Resultative compounds"

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Zhang, Xiaowen. "Strong and Weak Resultatives in Chinese Resultative Constructions." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 9, no. 12 (December 1, 2019): 1524. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0912.08.

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Washio (1997) contrasts resultative constructions in English and Japanese in terms of strong and weak resultatives and proposes that both strong and weak resultatives are allowed in English while only weak ones are acceptable in Japanese. When strong and weak resultatvies are examined in two types of Chinese resultative constructions: resultative V-A-(NP) compounds and V-DE-(NP)-A constructions, it can be found that both strong and weak resultatives are allowed in resultative V-A-(NP) compounds while only strong ones are acceptable in V-DE-(NP)-A constructions. Why so? It is related to the function of DE and this question can be explained in terms of the syntactic structures of strong and weak resultatives in Chinese based on Folli’s three-layer system.
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BASCIANO, Bianca. "On the event structure of Chinese resultative compounds." Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale 48, no. 2 (November 27, 2019): 173–241. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/19606028-04802002.

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Abstract It has been observed that Chinese resultative compounds display varied aspectual behaviors. Yong (1997) distinguishes between simple change resultatives, i.e. resultatives expressing instantaneous change, but allowing a process preliminary to the final change, and complex change resultatives, i.e. those allowing a gradual development of action. Starting from this distinction, this paper aims at providing a structural account of these resultative compounds, based on the constructionist framework put forth by Ramchand (2008), arguing that only simple change resultatives are characterized by having a result layer in their eventive structure. Complex change resultatives, in contrast, are characterized by having the result element in the complement position of the process projection, providing a scalar path. This allows a gradual change of state, and telicity emerges when the path is bounded. The paper also discusses the relation between complex change resultatives and degree achievements.
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Zhu, Jialei, and Yimin Sheng. "Resultative serial verb constructions in Shaoxing Wu and Mandarin resultative verb compounds: A parametric view." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 49, no. 2 (2021): 330–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jcl.2021.0011.

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Li, Jen-i. Jelina. "Information Compatibility and Resultative Verb Compounds in Mandarin." Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 20, no. 1 (October 25, 1994): 351. http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/bls.v20i1.1454.

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Zhang, Xiaowen. "The Possibility of Weak V-DE-(NP)-A Constructions in Chinese." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 11, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1101.10.

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According to Washio’s (1997) strong and weak resultative analysis, Chinese resultative V-A-(NP) compounds allow both strong and weak resultative constructions while Chinese V-DE-(NP)-A constructions allow only strong resultative constructions, i.e., weak V-DE-(NP)-A constructions are not accepted in these constructions when the result predicate is a stage-level predicate + le. However, it can be found that these ungrammatical weak V-DE-(NP)-A constructions are possible to be grammatical in Chinese when the result predicate is an individual-level predicate or is modified by a degree word. A natural question to ask here is why so. In the paper, I will suggest a reason for it in terms of the function of DE and the aspect marker le in Chinese resultative constructions and the syntactic structures of V-DE-(NP)-A constructions.
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Deng, Xiangjun. "The Acquisition of Resultative Verb Compounds in Mandarin Chinese." Journal of Chinese Linguistics 47, no. 1 (2019): 42–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jcl.2019.0002.

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Li, Chao. "Mandarin resultative verb compounds: Simple syntax and complex thematic relations." Language Sciences 37 (May 2013): 99–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2012.11.001.

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Zhuang, Huibin, Peicui Zhang, and Baopeng Ma. "V-V Compounds in Chinese: Syntactic Perspective Revisited." SAGE Open 11, no. 1 (January 2021): 215824402098868. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244020988681.

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This article revisits the formation of the resultative V-V compounds in Chinese. While presenting evidence to show the inadequacies of the lexicalist approach, we instead argue that these compounds are derived via syntactic operations. Meanwhile, the multiple readings of V-V compounds, once claimed to be the strong argumentation of the lexicalist account, are actually the results of such characteristics of Chinese syntax as the object realization, focalization, and topic-prominence. The evidence provided by the lexicalists thus does not constitute an argument against the syntactic account.
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Hsu, Ning, Matthew Rispoli, and Pamela A. Hadley. "Mastering the Grammar of Complex Events: Evidence from Mandarin Resultative Verb Compounds." Language Learning and Development 15, no. 3 (March 27, 2019): 255–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2019.1590204.

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Cheng, Gong, and Ying Liu. "A root-and-pattern approach to word-formation in Chinese." Asian Languages and Linguistics 1, no. 1 (March 11, 2020): 71–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/alal.00003.che.

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Abstract This paper argues that compounding, the major source of word-formation in Chinese, and the root-and-pattern system in Hebrew involve fundamentally the same syntactic operations and observe the same locality constraints, despite the salient differences. More specifically, it addresses the well-known continuum that the coordinate and attributive compounds behave more like words, whereas resultative and subordinate compounds are much more like phrases. It puts forward the idea that this continuum can be accounted for by assuming that there is a distinction between word-formation from roots and word-formation from words, with the former giving rise to more lexical properties and the latter more phrasal properties. The paper also discusses some related issues, such as the correct formulation of word-level phases and the structure of the major types of compound words in Chinese.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Resultative compounds"

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Li, Chao. "Mandarin resultative verb compounds where syntax, semantics, and pragmatics meet." Muenchen LINCOM Europa, 2008. http://d-nb.info/990656497/04.

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Keung, Sau-ching Joyce. "The development of resultative and directional verb compounds in Cantonese-speaking preschool children." Click to view the E-thesis via HKU Scholars Hub, 2007. http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B42005127.

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Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 2007.
"A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Bachelor of Science (Speech and Hearing Sciences), The University of Hong Kong, June 30, 2007." Includes bibliographical references (p. 28). Also available in print.
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Zhang, Bin. "Serial verb constructions or verb compounds? : a prototype approach to resultative verb constructions in Mandarin Chinese." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/762995.

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Resultative verb constructions RVCs (hereafter) are a special type of serial verb construction in Mandarin Chinese, in which the verbs hold an action-result relation. On the one hand, they behave like compounds, e.g., the verbs can be questioned as a single verb but cannot be separately modified, and no NP can possibly intervene. On the other hand, they also behave like phrases, i.e, for some types, the verbs can be split by an NP and can be separately modified. There has been controversy about the best way to analyze RVCs. There are two general positions: the pre-lexical syntactic approach and the pre-syntactic lexical approach. The former holds that resultative verb constructions are a syntactic phenomenon which can be derived by transformational rules. The latter, claims that RVCs are best considered a lexical phenomenon, i.e., verb compounds.This dissertation argues that neither approach sufficiently accounts for this phenomenon, in that both only shift the problem from one level of linguistic description to another. I propose a linguistic prototype analysis in which RVCs are seen as conventionalized serial verb constructions. I argue that the properties of the prototype and the conventionalized serial verb construction are subject to constraints in three areas: the semantic and syntactic dependency of the verbs, iconicity, and clause linkage. Through the analysis of the syntactic, semantic, and phonological behavior of various types of serial verb constructions, it is shown that serial verb constructions are on a structural continuum, i.e., from syntax to lexicon. RVCs are seen as close to the lexicalization end on the continuum.This dissertation shows the interplay of syntax, semantics, and phonology in the processes of syntactization and morphologization in Mandarin. It not only helps account for serial verb constructions but also has implications for other serial type phenomena on the word level, such as compounding and incorporation in Mandarin.
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Husain, Razia A. "Urdu Resultive Constructions (A Comparative Analysis of Syntacto-Semantic and Pragmatic Properties of the Compound Verbs in Hindi-Urdu)‎." UKnowledge, 2015. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/ltt_etds/10.

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Among Urdu’s many verb+verb constructions, this thesis focuses on those constructions, which combine the stem of a main content verb with another inflected verb which is used in a semantically bleached sense. Prior work on these constructions has been focused on their structural make-up and syntactic behavior in various environments. While there is consensus among scholars (Butt 1995, Hook 1977, Carnikova 1989, Porizka 2000 et al.) that these stem+verb constructions encode aspectual information, to date no clear theory has been put forward to explain the nature of their aspectual contribution. In short, we do not have a clear idea why these constructions are used instead of simple verbs. This work is an attempt to understand the precise function of these constructions. I propose that simple verbs (henceforth SV) in Urdu deal only with the action of the verb whereas (regardless of the semantic information contributed by the second inflected verb,1) the stem+verb constructions essentially deal with the action of the verb as well as the state of affairs resulting from this action. The event represented by these constructions is essentially a telic event as defined by Comrie (1976), whose resultant state is highlighted from the use of these constructions. The attention of the listener is then shifted to the result of this telic event, whose salience in the discourse is responsible for various interpretations of the event; hence my term ‘resultive construction’ (henceforth RC). When these constructions are made using the four special verbs (rah ‘stay’, sak ‘can’, paa ‘manage’ and cuk ‘finish’), the product is not resultive. Each of these verbs behaves differently and is somewhere between a resultive and an auxiliary verb construction. This work can be extended to other verb-verb construction in Urdu and other related and non-related languages as well. The analysis of the precise function of the RCs can also help in developing a model for them in various functional grammars. The proposed properties of RCs can be utilized in the semantic analysis of the Urdu quantifiers. This work should aid in identification and explanation of constructions in other languages, particularly those that are non-negatable under normal contexts. [1] All second inflected verbs with the exception of four special verbs rah ‘stay’, sak ‘can’, paa ‘manage’ and cuk ‘finish’. These four special verbs are either auxiliaries or modals as identified in prior literature.
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Tung, Yu-Chia, and 董于嘉. "Mandarin Children's Acquisition of Resultative Verb Compounds (RVCs)." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60765877451545074277.

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碩士
國立臺灣師範大學
英語學系
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The present study aims to probe into the first language acquisition of Mandarin RVCs. The issues addressed in the present study included the acquisition of metaphorical effects, categorical effects, telicity effect, and task effects. The present study adopted a production task (i.e., a picture-cued task) and a comprehension task (i.e., a multiple-choice task). The subjects of this study consisted of 100 Chinese-speaking children and a control group of 20 adults. The children were further divided into five experimental groups according to their age. The overall results indicated that the children learned literal RVCs earlier than metaphorical RVCs, and the critical age was probably at the age of six. With respect to task effects, the subjects consistently performed better on the comprehension task than on the production task. A general tendency of acquisition of the three types of verbs was found: ActR > SemR > StaR. It is demonstrated that ActR was acquired the earliest and comparatively the easiest of all. SemR was found relatively easier to produce, but more difficult to comprehend. StaR was the most difficult to acquire at a fairly young age, but once it was acquired, at the age of eight, it became easy for the children to obtain an adult-like competence. The result also showed that the semantic features [- Static] and [+ Durative] were acquired relatively early, probably at around the age of five (Group 2), while [+ Static] was acquired relatively late, probably at around the age of eight (Group 5).
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謝瑋舫. "V-A Pseudo-Resultative Compounds in Mandarin Chinese." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6qbjp4.

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國立交通大學
外國語文學系外國文學與語言學碩士班
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This thesis aims to investigate the verb-adjective (i.e., V-A) pseudo-resultative compounds in Mandarin Chinese, such as kun-jin ‘bind-tight’. As previous studies indicate, in Chinese, what is modified by the adjective of V-A resultative compounds can be the subject DP or the object DP. However, little attention has been paid to the V-A pseudo-resultative compounds in which a modification relation between the resultative adjective and the argument of the verb cannot be established. The analysis argues that, in line with Distributed Morphology (Halle and Marantz 1993), the root of the verb is modified by the adjective, as proposed in Levinson (2010) for pseudo-resultative predicates in English. In considering the characteristic that the V component is always found to have a classifier counterpart, I propose that the roots are “reconfiguration roots” that have compatible dimensions for the A component to measure. In addition, the reconfiguration root combines with two light verbs CAUSE and BECOME. The derived the verb denotes an reconfiguring event, and the event causes a reconfiguration state which can be modified by the adjective.
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Wu, Yu Hsien, and 吳郁賢. "Headedness and argument realization in mandarin resultative compounds." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/19607964210442919191.

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國立政治大學
語言學研究所
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Two issues regarding Mandarin resultative compounds, headedness and argument realization, present a complex phenomenon. For one thing, extensive studies (Cheng & Huang, 1994; Gu, 1992; Huang & Lin, 1992; Y. Li, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1999; C. Li, 2008, 2009; Shen, 1992; Tai, 2003) concerning headedness fail to critically determine the head of a Mandarin resultative compound. For another, despite previous research (Her, 2004, 2007; Li, 1990, 1995), the interaction between arguments and grammatical functions of Mandarin resultative compounds remains inconclusive. To settle the foregoing matters, the purpose of this thesis is to probe into argument realization and headedness from a lexicalist approach, aiming to provide a full account of both issues. In the first part of this thesis, following Her’s (2004, 2007) analysis, the thesis focuses on formulating systematic feasible argument structures for Mandarin resultative compounds, then examining the argument structures of a resultative compound to explain its possible readings and syntactic representations. Based on the available argument structures proposed in the first half, the second part of the thesis investigates the headedness of Mandarin resultative compounds, suggesting that the head can be determined when arguments are overt. The criterion for headedness that is adopted in this thesis involves assumptions proposed by Zwicky (1984), Y. Li (1990, 1995), Chung (2006), and C. Li (2008, 2009). Finally, the thesis demonstrates that both issues of argument realization and headedness are well governed by Lexical Mapping Theory and that Lexical Mapping Theory further clarifies constructions with locative inversion of Mandarin resultative compounds.
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Huang, Han-Chun, and 黃漢君. "Resultative Verb Compounds in Madarin Chinese: A Constructional Approach." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/32918271599497970676.

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鍾玉美. "A Minimalist Approach to Resultative Verb Compounds in Mandarin." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/94572772676814372820.

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國立師範大學
英語學系
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This thesis aims to discuss the syntactic structure and semantic interpretationof the Resultative Verb Compounds (RVCs) in Mandarin within the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995). It is argued that the verb compounds of RVCs are two separate units originated in different clauses. Following Larson's (1988) vp shell analysis, it is assumed that RVCs are composed of a complex vp headed by a resultative light verb subcategorizing for a sentential subject and a clausal complement. This explains why sentences with RVCs involve two events. Moreover, it is claimed that a resultative feature is a strong feature and for convergence, it attracts V2 of RVCs to move up to the v position before SPELL OUT, resulting in the surface patterns of RVCs. With respect to the interpretations of RVCs, following Huang (1989), I assume that the null elements in object positions are variables bounded by a discourse topic, but those in subject positions are pros. In order to interpret the pro, a Compatibility Filter is proposed. Finally, it is argued that the present study can also account for sentences with various readinngs by virtue of the feature system.
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Li, Wei-shan, and 李瑋珊. "The First Language Influence on the Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Resultative Verb Compounds." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7xzvm5.

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國立臺灣師範大學
英語學系
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The resultative verb compounds (hereafter RVC) in Chinese consist of two verbal elements, with the second element signifying the result of the action/state denoted by the first (Li and Thompson 1981). Smith (1997) hence suggests that RVCs are like English Accomplishments. However, there are some cross-linguistic variations between RVCs and Accomplishments, though the two verbs have the action-result semantic relation between their semantic components. Tai (1984), for example, indicates that the Mandarin RVC encodes only the aspectual meaning of the result; thus, RVCs are instantaneous verbs, whereas English Accomplishments with the aspectual meaning of both the action and result are durative verbs. Tai (2003) also points out that in Mandarin RVCs, the result of an event is ‘overtly’ expressed with the resultative morpheme, while in English Accomplishments, it is ‘covertly’ expressed, or ‘implied’ in the meaning of the verb (Tai 2003). Based on the difference between Mandarin and English in the specification of ‘result’, Tai claims that English speakers would attend less to the result part of the event than Chinese speakers. Motivated by the cross-linguistic variations between Mandarin RVCs and English Accomplishments, this study explores the L2 acquisition of Mandarin RVCs by English L2 learners to see whether they have full understanding of the semantic properties of RVCs in general and whether their acquisition varies according to the three RVC types—divided based on the semantic property of the two constituents-- Activity-Result, Semelfactive-Result and State-Result RVCs. Forty native English speakers learning Chinese at the MTC participated in this study, and they were further divided into two groups according to their Chinese proficiency levels, i.e., the intermediate and high groups. The instrument was a survey composed of two tasks--grammaticality judgment (GJ) and sentence interpretation (SI). The overall results showed that the learners’ performance differed according to the three RVC types. They did best on the Sta-R RVCs, with the notable exception of test questions containing both a Sta-R RVC and the adverb chayidianr ‘almost’ in the SI task. Among the three RVC types, the Sem-R RVC had the lowest accuracy rate. Though the learners performed better on the Act-R RVC than on the Sem-R RVC, there was no significant difference between the performances. A further examination revealed that the English learners had the knowledge that the result part constitutes the semantic focus of RVCs and treated Act-R and Sem-R RVCs as English typical Achievements and derived Achievements, respectively. Moreover, the results showed that the learners’ L1 played a crucial role in the L2 acquisition of Mandarin RVCs. In the GJ task, it has been observed the compatibility between the meaning of the derived Achievement and the English progressive misled the learners into considering that Sem-R RVCs could appear with the Mandarin imperfective aspect marker zhengzai, which implies that the L1-L2 difference in structure brings about negative transfer. With respect to positive transfer, it was found that the accuracy of judgment for the Act-R RVC was higher than that for the Sem-R RVC, suggesting that the L1 knowledge of (typical) Achievements had great help in acquiring the Act-R RVC. In the SI task, the results showed that as far as the Action-Result RVCs are concerned, the frequency of the result interpretation for questions with the adverb ‘almost’ is higher than that for questions without the adverb, suggesting that the learners relied heavily on English Achievements when making decision on the center predication of sentences with such RVCs. Last but not least, our results showed that English-speaking people attended more to the action part of the event than to the action part.
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Books on the topic "Resultative compounds"

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Hu, Xuhui. The syntax and semantics of Chinese resultatives. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808466.003.0004.

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This chapter investigates the syntactic derivation of Chinese resultatives. While in English resultatives the [uDiv] feature is valued with the mechanism of feature sharing, in Chinese resultatives it is valued by a verbal C-functor, by nature equivalent to en in flatten. The Chinese V–V resultative compound is a single de-adjectival verb: the first verb is a verbal C-functor and the second one is an adjective. The V–V resultative construction is therefore analyzed as a causative construction involving a de-adjectival verb. This single hypothesis provides a unified account of the seemingly mysterious properties of Chinese resultatives as well as the differences from English resultatives. This account is based on a general hypothesis of Synchronic Grammaticalization: in an analytical language like Chinese where there is only a very limited array of functional items, lexical items are selected to serve as functional items to meet the universal requirement of feature valuation.
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Snyder, William. Compound Word Formation. Edited by Jeffrey L. Lidz, William Snyder, and Joe Pater. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199601264.013.6.

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Compound word formation is examined from the twin perspectives of comparative grammar and child language acquisition. Points of cross-linguistic variation addressed include the availability of bare-stem endocentric compounding as a “creative” process, head modifier order, the distribution of linking elements in Swedish and German compounds, the possibility of recursion, and the availability of synthetic compounding of the -ER (English dish washer) and bare-stem (French lave-vaisselle) types. Proposals discussed at length include Beard’s Generalization (which links head modifier order in compounds to the position of attributive adjectives), Snyder’s Compounding Parameter (linking syntactic availability of verb-particle constructions and adjectival resultatives to availability of creative endocentric compounding), and Gordon’s acquisitional studies of Kiparsky’s Generalization (concerning restrictions on regular plural-marking within compounds).
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Book chapters on the topic "Resultative compounds"

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Liu, Jianxun. "The Generation of Resultative V-V Compounds." In The Syntax of V-V Resultatives in Mandarin Chinese, 11–41. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6846-0_2.

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Mochizuki, Keiko. "Patient-orientedness in resultative compound verbs in Chinese." In Corpus-Based Perspectives in Linguistics, 287–300. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ubli.6.20moc.

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Wang, William S.-Y., Chaofen Sun, and Shaio Wei Tham. "Resultative Verb Compounds in Mandarin." In The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199856336.013.0024.

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XU, DAN. "The Rise of Resultative Compounds." In Typological Change in Chinese Syntax, 146–88. Oxford University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199297566.003.0005.

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Matsumoto, Yo. "The semantic differentiation of verb-te verb complexes and verb-verb compounds in Japanese." In Verb-Verb Complexes in Asian Languages, 139–64. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198759508.003.0006.

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Japanese has two different formal types of complex predicates involving two verbs: V-te V complex predicates and V-V compound verbs. This chapter discusses the nature of the former in comparison to the latter. The examination reveals that the two kinds of multiverbal complexes similarly have two subtypes, one monoclausal and the other biclausal, but that they are different morphologically, syntactically, and semantically. The most interesting finding is that the two crucially differ in whether deictic and honorific verbs, which encode perspectival and interactional meanings, can participate in the complexes. Morphologically tighter V-V compounds require a same-subject relation between the two verbs and exclude perspectival or interactional meanings (except V1 in syntactic compounds). Loosely concatenated V-te V complexes allow different subjects, typically have perfective/resultative V1, and have V2 as a preferred slot for perspectival/interactional meanings. These observations suggest that Japanese does not have these two options meaninglessly; the different multiverbal complexes serve different purposes.
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Thepkanjana, Kingkarn, and Satoshi Uehara. "Verbal complexes in Thai." In Verb-Verb Complexes in Asian Languages, 499–520. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198759508.003.0019.

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This chapter investigates the serial verb constructions (SVC) in Thai, where the predicate takes the structure [V1 NP1 V2 (NP2)]. Focusing on a type of two-component SVC in which one component verb is the head and the other the modifier, we attempt to pinpoint those SVCs that correspond semantically to the Indian-type vector compound verbs, differentiating them from the Chinese-type resultative serial verbs. The V2 verbs, which are drawn from a limited set of verbs, modify the main verbs in V1 in terms of grammatical aspectual meanings or pragmatic meanings. The grammatical aspectual meaning of V2 is a part of the propositional meaning of the verbal complex and is relatively easy to identify. Most V2s in Thai verbal complexes modify V1s in terms of pragmatic specifications, which are rather difficult to spell out, and can be omitted without affecting the propositional meaning. These V2s are considered analogous to vector verbs.
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